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Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Brightest Kind of Darkness

The Brightest Kind of
Darkness… I was hooked at the title.I mean who doesn’t love a complete contradiction in a title.Makes you start guessing, questioning- I love
the mystery of it all.

This book was
very well written.I loved how you
really are trying to figure things out from the very beginning.That is why I would very adamantly
state:Do NOT read Ethan (the “0.5 Novella” prequel) before you have read The Brightest Kind of Darkness!It was awesome to read later and get the back
story, but I have a feeling it would ruin the novel if you read its prequel
first.(not to mention it is so obvious
that she waited a while before writing Ethan…
there are way too many contradictions in story line)

That said, I truly enjoyed both of these books.However, Lucid (Book 2)
fell way short for me.It’s really
obvious that The Brightest Kind of
Darkness needed a sequel.Michelle
left too many openings for it not to have one (not really a cliffhanger, but
many unanswered questions).But when I
went back and read Ethan and then The
Brightest Kind of Darkness again it kind of left me feeling that question:Do I really want to read Lucid again?There were too
many thing I don’t like in a book.Jealousy, stupid misunderstandings that could be cleared up if the
people involved would just be honest about their feelings and even a little bit
of the dreaded… dun,dun,dun… triangle relationship.

OK, if I’m totally honest the triangle was pretty much all
in my head.Nara never stopped loving
Ethan; even for a minute.It was
me.There were things I didn’t like
about Ethan until I read the prequel (which is from his POV) and honestly I
kinda liked Drystan better.I think when
I do go back and read Lucid again
(which I’m sure I will) now that I know Ethan better I think I’ll like Lucid more.I’ll stop having the thoughts that Nara
shouldn’t trust him and that Drystan is more dependable, etc.Ethan is really a great guy he, just has…
issues.And at this point in the series
I don’t think Michelle has come close to letting us in on what they are.

I’m looking forward to Destiny
and hope that it will be the final installment… only because I’m dying to have
my questions about Ethan and Nara answered in full.

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